§ 35. Petition for referendum.

If at any time within a thirty-day period following the adoption of an ordinance a petition, signed by qualified voters equal in number to twenty-five percent of the number of electors who cast their votes at the last preceding regular municipal election for the election of councilmen, but in no case signed by less than four thousand qualified voters of the city, be filed with the city clerk, requesting that any such ordinance be repealed, or amended, as stated in the petition, such ordinance shall not become operative until the steps indicated herein shall have been taken or the time allowed for taking any such step shall have elapsed without action. Such petition shall state therein the names and addresses of at least five electors, who shall constitute a committee to represent the petitioners, who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition, and shall constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purposes hereinafter stated. Referendum petitions need not contain the text of the ordinance or ordinances, the amendment or repeal of which is sought, but shall contain the proposed amendment, if an amendment is demanded. (Acts 1956, Ch. 339; Acts 1972, Ch. 706, § 1)